Carrie Is Trying to Focus on a Conversation Across the Room

question 275

Multiple Choice

Carrie is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of __________.

• A) Broadbent's forgetting theory
• B) the homecoming-queen party phenomenon
• C) selective attention
• D) intimacy

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